Catalogue TOCA - commissioned work produced for A Gente Transforma, a project idealized by Marcelo Rosenbaum, that seeks to show the Brazilian design soul developed in partnership with the local community of Várzea Queimada, Piauí State, Brazil. At the community, the creation of Carnaúba straw pieces is one activity typically of women. The men work with rubber, recycling tires to produce jewelry and pieces for decoration. For more info and images from this project, check this link: http://bit.ly/NCDYyB

"A Gente Transforma" (literally "We Transform"), is a project idealized by Marcelo Rosenbaum, developed with the community and Rosenbaum's team: 47 people that included designers, students, volunteers, film-makers, journalists, spiritual leaders, architects, and me, as the photographer. During a few weeks, the work was developed in Várzea Queimada, a drought-plagued Piauí community of 900 people of mixed indigenous and black ancestry, at Piauí State, Brazil. To see images from the catalogue developed during this project, check out the images: CATALOGO TOCA: http://bit.ly/NCDDvL

Commissioned work for AVINA Foundation (Fundación AVINA) about the Catadores - Pickers of garbage selecting recyclable materials, working in two Sao Paulo city projects supported by Avina Foundation.